Accounts Quote by Joseph Addison

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

— William Shenstone

“Literature is communication. Communication requires loyalty. A rigorous morality results from complicity in the knowledge of Evil, which is the basis of intense communication.”

— Georges Bataille

Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Wit and judgment often are at strife.

— Alexander Pope

“A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ Survey the whole nor seek slight faults…

— Alexander Pope

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

— Edward Abbey

There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Proceed, philosophers, teach, enlighten, enkindle, think aloud, speak aloud, run joyously towards the bright daylight, fraternise in the public squares, announce the glad tidings,…

— Victor Hugo

“Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad tidings, lavish…

— Victor Hugo

Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Apply thy minde to be a vertuous man Auoyd ill company (the spoyle of youth;) To follow Vertues Lore doo what thou can, (Whereby…

— Richard Barnfield

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë